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April Haynes is a Professor of History and Director of Inclusive Excellence at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She holds a PhD in History with a Doctoral Emphasis in Feminist Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, along with an MA in History and a BA in History and Women’s Studies from San Francisco State University. Her research focuses on women, gender, and sexuality in the early United States, with particular attention to racialized gender, intimate labor, and women’s roles in social movements.
Her book Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America (2015) examines the origins of sex panic and heteronormativity. Her current projects include Tender Traffic: Intimate Labor Movements, 1790–1860, tracing early service-economy roots, and a textbook Debating Gender: A History from the Ancient World to the Present Day. Her publications span labor activism, legal history, and feminist theory.
- Awards: Mellon New Directions Fellowship, James F. Broussard Best First Book Prize, NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Teaching: Courses on women’s history, gender in world history, historiography, and early American abolitionism.
Haynes advises graduate students like Abigail Corcoran and Brigid Nannenhorn. Her research integrates labor studies, legal history, and gender analysis to recover marginalized voices in early American social movements.
